is 75 hp enough

[fishhair]

i have the chance to get a 95' nitro 18'. will my 75 hp mercury push it ?

 

[roscoe]

What model boat?
How much does it weigh?
What is the max hp rating?

 

[Scott Danforth]

an electric trolling motor will probably push it along just fine. you never defined the speed at which you want it to move.

if the boat is a Nitro FS or 185 Sport TF 180 , all those hull are rated at 150hp. and came with a 115 as the smallest motor

 

[Texasmark]

Shure it'll push it and as Scott said, so will a trolling motor. If the engine was originally on the boat when bought new, it sure took the PO a long time to get tired of not getting (much) on plane. And in answering the question objectively......................YOU NEVER HAVE ENOUGH! Even the drug runner with 9 300 hp Yammies strapped to his transom doesn't have enough. Course on that boat, what I'd like to know is what kind of a transom is required to take that dead weight and moment of inertia when the pilot hammers down on the throttles.

 

[redneck joe]

it will plane it (trimmed all the way down) and maybe 25 or so MPH.

 

[flyingscott]

Rule of thumb stay at 75% or above the rated hp